The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (53 page)

Kashpaw and Nanapush Family Tree

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About the Author

LOUISE ERDRICH grew up in North Dakota and is a mixed blood enrolled in the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She is the author of seven novels, including the National Book Critics Award—winning
Love Medicine,
as well as poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood,
The Bluejay’s Dance.
Her short fiction has won the National Magazine Award and is included in the O. Henry and Best American collections. She lives in Minnesota with her children, who help her run a small independent bookstore called The Birchbark.

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Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: THE OLD PRIEST

PART ONE: THE TRANSFIGURATION OF AGNES

1. NAKED WOMAN PLAYING CHOPIN

2. IN THE THRALLOF THE GRAPE

3. LITTLE NO HORSE

PART TWO: THE DEADLY CONVERSIONS

4. THE ROAD TO LITTLE NO HORSE

5. SPIRIT TALK

6. THE KASHPAW WIVES

7. THE FEAST OF THE VIRGIN

8. THE CONFESSION OF MARIE

PART THREE: MEMORY AND SUSPICION

9. THE ROSARY

10. THE GHOST MUSIC

11. THE FIRST VISIT

12. THE AUDIENCE

13. THE RECOGNITION

14. LULU

15. LULU’S PASSION

PART FOUR: THE PASSIONS

16. FATHER DAMIEN

17. MIST AND MARY KASHPAW

18. LE MOOZ OR THE LAST YEAR OF NANAPUSH

19. THE WATER JAR

20. A NIGHT VISITATION

21. THE BODY OF THE CONUNDRUM

22. FATHER DAMIEN’S PASSION

EPILOGUE: A FAX FROM THE BEYOND

END NOTES

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